Atlanta Film Festival to Kick Off with "Everyday People"

A scene from Jim McKay's "Everyday People," which will open the Atlanta Film Festival on June 11. Photo courtesy of HBO Films.

The 28th Atlanta Film Festival, run by the IMAGE Film & Video Center, will run June 11-20 featuring 70 features and 100 shorts. The opening-night film is Jim McKay's "Everyday People," the tale of a Brooklyn diner being demolished and the effects on its workers and customers. The closing-night feature will be "Seducing Doctor Lewis," the Sundance audience prizewinner about a small Canadian village that goes to great lengths to lure a big-city doctor.

Six narratives and six documentary features are in competition at the festival, all films that haven't secured U.S. theatrical distribution. Fiction competitors are "Bomb the System,""Dear Pillow,""Delivery Method,""Evergreen,""Madness and Genius," and "Piggie." Docs are "Deadline,""Dirty Work,""Imelda,""In the Realms of the Unreal,""Speedo," and "This Land is Your Land." Atlanta's 2004 jurors include producer Effie Brown, ThinkFilm's Dan Katz, Magnolia's Tom Quinn, and Pipedream Productions' Moira Griffin.